Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 473 406 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 14.00% 9.16% 15.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.73% 41.34% 47.39%
Number of salaries quoted 363 279 302
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £27,775
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,875 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £78,150 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 897 982 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.55% 22.15% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 650 606 612
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,125 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,063 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,975 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.05% +5.95% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £66,313
90th Percentile £76,375 £79,375 £82,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% +4.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +11 141 £33,750 -28.95% 68
Hertfordshire +4 122 £55,000 -8.33% 87
Essex +11 111 £37,500 -25.00% 76
Bedfordshire -8 45 £34,000 -32.00% 50
Suffolk -10 33 £50,000 +11.11% 21
Norfolk -7 17 £50,000 +11.11% 28
East Anglia - 6 £71,750 - 30
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 59 (12.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (9.73%) SharePoint
3 29 (6.13%) Confluence
4 10 (2.11%) IIS
5 9 (1.90%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.06%) CMS
7 4 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.85%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.42%) Appian
10 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 48 (10.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (6.34%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.42%) Trello
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 161 (34.04%) Microsoft 365
2 112 (23.68%) Power Platform
3 107 (22.62%) Entra ID
4 78 (16.49%) AWS
5 44 (9.30%) Power Automate
6 42 (8.88%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (8.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 33 (6.98%) PowerApps
9 24 (5.07%) Serverless
10 20 (4.23%) GCP
11 18 (3.81%) SaaS
12 17 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (3.38%) OneDrive
14 15 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (2.75%) Snowflake
16 11 (2.33%) IaaS
17 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
17 10 (2.11%) PaaS
18 8 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (13.11%) Firewall
2 41 (8.67%) DNS
3 37 (7.82%) DHCP
4 31 (6.55%) Wireless
5 27 (5.71%) WAN
6 24 (5.07%) VPN
7 23 (4.86%) TCP/IP
8 21 (4.44%) LAN
9 16 (3.38%) Internet
10 15 (3.17%) VLAN
11 13 (2.75%) SSL
12 11 (2.33%) SAN
13 9 (1.90%) DMARC
13 9 (1.90%) VoIP
14 7 (1.48%) IP Telephony
14 7 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (1.48%) WLAN
15 6 (1.27%) Wireless Security
16 5 (1.06%) SD-WAN
17 3 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 71 (15.01%) Power BI
3 19 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (3.59%) MySQL
5 14 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.69%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.06%) Crystal Reports
9 5 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.85%) Power Query
11 3 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.42%) Big Data
12 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (8.88%) JIRA
2 23 (4.86%) Git
3 18 (3.81%) GitLab
3 18 (3.81%) Selenium
4 15 (3.17%) Bitbucket
4 15 (3.17%) Cucumber
4 15 (3.17%) Maven
4 15 (3.17%) SonarQube
4 15 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.42%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.42%) Snyk
5 2 (0.42%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.21%) ERwin
6 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.21%) JMeter
6 1 (0.21%) Moq
6 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (21.56%) Social Skills
2 57 (12.05%) Finance
3 36 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (7.40%) Retail
5 25 (5.29%) Law
6 21 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (3.81%) Automotive
8 17 (3.59%) Legal
9 15 (3.17%) Banking
10 14 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.90%) Czech Language
11 9 (1.90%) Public Sector
12 8 (1.69%) Back Office
12 8 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.27%) Marketing
14 4 (0.85%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.42%) Electronics
15 2 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (16.91%) Analyst
2 64 (13.53%) Developer
3 58 (12.26%) Support Analyst
4 50 (10.57%) Azure Engineer
5 49 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 45 (9.51%) Support Engineer
7 44 (9.30%) IT Support
8 32 (6.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 31 (6.55%) Administrator
9 31 (6.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (5.71%) 1st Line Support
11 26 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (5.07%) 3rd Line Support
12 24 (5.07%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 22 (4.65%) IT Administrator
13 22 (4.65%) IT Engineer
14 21 (4.44%) Software Developer
15 20 (4.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (4.23%) Senior
16 18 (3.81%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (18.60%) .NET
2 43 (9.09%) React
3 33 (6.98%) CSS
4 20 (4.23%) HTML
5 18 (3.81%) ASP.NET
5 18 (3.81%) Kafka
5 18 (3.81%) Node.js
6 17 (3.59%) Pandas
7 16 (3.38%) REST
7 16 (3.38%) Spring
7 16 (3.38%) Spring Boot
8 15 (3.17%) JPA
8 15 (3.17%) jQuery
8 15 (3.17%) Redux
9 14 (2.96%) Web Services
10 13 (2.75%) Hibernate
10 13 (2.75%) Vue
10 13 (2.75%) YAML
11 12 (2.54%) HTML5 Canvas
12 11 (2.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.77%) Enterprise Software
2 23 (4.86%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.02%) IoT
4 18 (3.81%) NHS
5 16 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (3.17%) Cyberattack
6 15 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.75%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.90%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.06%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.06%) Clustering
11 5 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.06%) Social Media
12 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.85%) iPad
12 4 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.63%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 169 (35.73%) Windows
2 128 (27.06%) Windows Server
3 46 (9.73%) Windows Server 2019
4 45 (9.51%) Linux
5 34 (7.19%) Mac OS
6 33 (6.98%) Android
7 30 (6.34%) Windows 10
8 13 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (2.33%) Apple iOS
9 11 (2.33%) Unix
10 8 (1.69%) VMS
11 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.21%) SUSE
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (29.81%) Problem-Solving
2 110 (23.26%) Agile
3 108 (22.83%) Customer Service
4 93 (19.66%) ITIL
5 83 (17.55%) CI/CD
6 80 (16.91%) DevOps
7 77 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
8 69 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 68 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (12.68%) Analytics
11 58 (12.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 57 (12.05%) Software Engineering
13 50 (10.57%) Data Analysis
14 48 (10.15%) Process Improvement
15 43 (9.09%) Data Analytics
16 42 (8.88%) Containerisation
17 40 (8.46%) Microservices
17 40 (8.46%) Performance Optimisation
18 39 (8.25%) Scrum
19 36 (7.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 88 (18.60%) PowerShell
2 83 (17.55%) SQL
3 78 (16.49%) JavaScript
4 70 (14.80%) C#
5 65 (13.74%) Python
6 60 (12.68%) Java
7 29 (6.13%) C++
8 19 (4.02%) PHP
9 16 (3.38%) Go
10 15 (3.17%) Rust
11 14 (2.96%) TypeScript
12 13 (2.75%) VB.NET
13 9 (1.90%) VBA
14 7 (1.48%) Bash
14 7 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (1.27%) Bicep
15 6 (1.27%) VBScript
16 2 (0.42%) R
17 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 85 (17.97%) DBS Check
2 69 (14.59%) Degree
3 58 (12.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 30 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (5.29%) Security Cleared
6 18 (3.81%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.59%) DV Cleared
8 15 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (2.96%) CCNA
10 13 (2.75%) A+ Certification
11 8 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (1.48%) MCP
12 7 (1.48%) MCSA
12 7 (1.48%) SC Cleared
13 6 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.06%) MCITP
14 5 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.07%) GDPR
2 21 (4.44%) QA
3 12 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.06%) SLA
7 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.85%) PMO
8 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.42%) GxP
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.21%) NIST
9 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 135 (28.54%) Active Directory
2 43 (9.09%) Docker
3 36 (7.61%) Hyper-V
4 32 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (3.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.85%) Firmware
6 4 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.85%) vSphere
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 85 (17.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (8.46%) Terraform
3 35 (7.40%) Kubernetes
4 19 (4.02%) Ansible
5 15 (3.17%) Backup Exec
6 13 (2.75%) SCCM
7 11 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (1.06%) SmoothWall
10 3 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.63%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.42%) Graylog
11 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.42%) Puppet
11 2 (0.42%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.21%) CASB
12 1 (0.21%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 285 (60.25%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.19%) VMware
3 20 (4.23%) Veeam
4 19 (4.02%) Cisco
5 18 (3.81%) Apple
5 18 (3.81%) Oracle
6 15 (3.17%) DevExpress
6 15 (3.17%) Solace
7 14 (2.96%) Atlassian
8 11 (2.33%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.11%) Samsung
9 10 (2.11%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.90%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (1.69%) Dell
11 8 (1.69%) Google
11 8 (1.69%) HP
11 8 (1.69%) Meraki
11 8 (1.69%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.48%) IBM